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Topic: speeding up Firefox on Broadband!! (Read 3469 times)

Here is something drobbins posted over at beesource.Hope he doesn't mind I borrowed this tip.I tried it and it makes quite a difference!

Hey Folks,

here's a neat trick I stumbled acrossfor broadband users only, DON"T do this if you have a slow connection, it will make it worse//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////This is simple, and works wonders for page loading speed!

Want Firefox to run 2/3 times faster? Course you do. Read on...

Here's something for broadband (will have the opposite effect for 56kers)people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll downand look for the following entries:

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. Whenyou enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds uppage loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows: (by double clicking them)

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. Thismeans it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it"nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is theamount of time the browser waits before it acts on information itrecieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times fasternow. I swear it works, pages are loaded in a split second for me now. VeryHappy

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////this has worked well for merestart firefox after you do it

i did it, but...i can't really tell if it works, since i was actually happy with the loading time and all. but today i am experiencing some troubles (just slow loading) with beemasters sites.anyway...did it, can't hurt.